Rationality Control And Freedom

Author : Curran F. Douglass
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781611478389

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Rationality, Control, and Freedom by Curran F. Douglass Pdf

The subject of this book is the controversy—one of the oldest in philosophy—about whether it is possible to have freedom in the face of universal causal determinism. Of course, it is crucial to consider what such freedom might mean—in particular, there is an important distinction between libertarian “free will” and the more naturalistic view of freedom taken by compatibilists. This book provides background for laypersons through a historical survey of earlier views and some discussion and criticism of various contemporary views. In particular, it states and discusses the Consequence Argument, the most important argument challenging human freedom in recent literature. The main feature of the book is the argument for a solution: one that is within the compatibilist tradition, is naturalistic and in accord with findings of science and principles of engineering control theory. Some particular features of the offered solution include an argument for a close tie between freedom and control—where what is meant is the voluntary motion control of our bodies, and this “control” is understood naturalistically, by which the author means in accordance with concepts of engineering control theory and modern science. Such concepts are used to explain and demarcate the concept of “control” being used. Then it develops a working conception of what rationality is (since what is crucial is freedom in choice, and rationality is crucial to that), by reviewing texts on the subject by three expert authors (namely, Nathanson, Nozick, and Searle). It is argued that rationality is a species of biological learning control that involves deliberation; and that our freedom in choice is greatest when our choices are most rational.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674013514

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Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen Pdf

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.

Author : David van Mill
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 079145035X

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Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan by David van Mill Pdf

A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.

Author : Sam Whimster,Dr Scott Lash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317833369

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Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity by Sam Whimster,Dr Scott Lash Pdf

This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a collection of specially commissioned pieces and translated articles the Weberian scholarship recognizes Max Weber as the figure central to contemporary debates on the need for societal rationality, the limits of reason and the place of culture and conduct in the supposedly post-religious age. In Part 1, Wolfgang Mommsen, Wilhelm Hennis, Guenther Roth and Wolfgang Schluchter provide a full and varied account of the theme of rationalization in the world civilizations. In Part 2 Pierre Bourdieu and Barry Hindess critically examine Weber's social action model, and Johannes Weiss and Martin Albrow address the putative 'crisis' of Western rationality. In Part 3 Jeffrey Alexander, Ralph Schroeder, Bryan Turner, Roslyn Bologh and Sam Whimster scrutinize Weber's understanding of modernity with its characteristic plurality of 'gods and demons'; they focus on its implications for individuality and personality, the body and sexuality, feminism and aesthetic modernism. Part 4 turns to politics, law and the state in the contemporary world: Colin Gordon on liberalism, Luciano Cavalli on charismatic politics, Stephen Turner and Regis Factor on decisionism and power and Scott Lash on modernism, substantice rationality and law. This book was first published in 1987.

Author : O.p.dhiman
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 8131302229

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Foundation of Education by O.p.dhiman Pdf

Author : Jonathan Pugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198858584

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Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics by Jonathan Pugh Pdf

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in this sphere. Yet, there is also considerable disagreement about how we should cash out the relationship between rationality and autonomy. In particular, it is unclear whether a rationalist view of autonomy can be compatible with legal judgments that enshrine a patient's right to refuse medical treatment, regardless of whether ". . . the reasons for making the choice are rational, irrational, unknown or even non-existent". In this book, I bring recent philosophical work on the nature of rationality to bear on the question of how we should understand autonomy in contemporary bioethics. In doing so, I develop a new framework for thinking about the concept, one that is grounded in an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and rational desires have to play in personal autonomy. Furthermore, the account outlined here allows for a deeper understanding of different form of controlling influence, and the relationship between our freedom to act, and our capacity to decide autonomously. I contrast my rationalist with other prominent accounts of autonomy in bioethics, and outline the revisionary implications it has for various practical questions in bioethics in which autonomy is a salient concern, including questions about the nature of informed consent and decision-making capacity.

Author : Christopher Hookway
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199256587

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Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism by Christopher Hookway Pdf

This study of themes from the work of the American philosopher Charles Peirce examines his account of truth, discusses his claims on rationality, and concludes by reviewing his approach to religious belief and the role of pragmatism in his thought.

Author : Mary Beth Ingham,Mechthild Dreyer
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813213705

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The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus by Mary Beth Ingham,Mechthild Dreyer Pdf

In this much-anticipated work, distinguished authors Mary Beth Ingham and Mechthild Dreyer present an accessible introduction to the philosophy of the thirteenth century Franciscan John Duns Scotus

Author : Yaser Ellethy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317627456

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Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy by Yaser Ellethy Pdf

Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition. This book examines classical and modern Muslim interpretations with regard to the concepts of diachronic development, pluralism and democracy based on Arabic-Islamic sources and literature. Focusing on the parameters of semantic changes, methods of interpretation and cultural variables, it shows how this interpretative tradition offers a diversity of ideas and approaches that can be utilized in contemporary debates concerning the socio-political contextualization of Islamic genuine thought. However, within this diversity, Islam presents generic principles and core values as 'moral paradigms' that can deal with such modern challenges. Based on the analysis of core Islamic texts and key-terms related to the discussed issues, mainly from the Quran and the Sunnah, and the broader Arabic-Islamic literature, it explores the boundaries of the mutable and constant in the Islamic worldview. Presenting classical Muslim interpretations and scholars as possible interlocutors in debates over the compatibility of Islam with challenges of modernity, this book is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates interested in Islamic Studies, Philosophy of Religion and Political Science.

Author : Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438459479

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Contingency and Commitment by Carlos Alberto Sánchez Pdf

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English. This book examines the emergence of existentialism in Mexico in the 1940s and the quest for a genuine Mexican philosophy that followed it. It focuses on the pivotal moments and key figures of the Hyperion group, including Emilio Uranga, Luis Villoro, Leopoldo Zea, and Jorge Portilla, who explored questions of interpretation, marginality, identity, and the role of philosophy. Carlos Alberto Sánchez was the first to introduce and emphasize the philosophical significance of the Hyperion group to readers of English in The Suspension of Seriousness, and in the present volume he examines its legacy and relevancy for the twenty-first century. Sánchez argues that there are lessons to be learned from Hyperion’s project not only for Latino/a life in the United States but also for the lives of those on the fringes of contemporary, postmodern or postcolonial, economic, political, and cultural power. Carlos Alberto Sánchez is Professor of Philosophy at San José State University and the author of The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenología del relajo, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192508058

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Self-Determination by Thomas Pink Pdf

Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Pink argues that what matters to morality is not in fact the freedom to do otherwise, but something more primitive - a basic capacity or power to determine for ourselves what we do. This capacity might or might not take the form of a freedom to act in more than one way, and it might or might not be compatible with causal determinism. What really matters to morality is that it is we who determine what we do. What we do must not simply be a function of powers or capacities for which we are not responsible, or a matter of mere chance. At the heart of moral responsibility is a distinctive form of power that is quite unlike ordinary causation - a power by which we determine outcomes in a way quite differently from the way ordinary causes determine outcomes. Pink examines how this power is involved in action, and how the nature of action permits the operation of such a power to determine it.

Author : Paul Weirich
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195388381

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Collective Rationality by Paul Weirich Pdf

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality. The book's theory of collective rationality explains how to evaluate collective acts. The people engaged in a game of strategy collectively produce an outcome, and the theory reveals what makes some outcomes solutions. It generates new equilibrium standards for solutions to cooperative games.

Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521555043

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The Psychology of Freedom by Thomas Pink Pdf

This 1996 book provides an alternative theory of the will and of our capacity for decision-making.

Author : David Delaney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139437004

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Law and Nature by David Delaney Pdf

This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk as expressed in both extra-legal disputes and their transformation and translation into forms of legal discourse (tort, property, contract, administrative law, criminal law and constitutional law). Delaney begins by considering the pragmatics of nature in connection with the very idea of law and the practice of American legal theorization. He then traces a set of specific political-legal disputes and arguments. The set consists of a series of contexts and cases organized around a conventional distinction between 'external' and 'internal nature': forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments, bestiality, reproductive technologies, genetic screening, biological defenses in criminal cases, and involuntary medication of inmates. He demonstrates throughout that nearly any construal of 'nature' entails an interpretation of what it is to be (distinctively) human.

Author : Zbigniew Drozdowicz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643903761

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Rationality Standards of Social Life by Zbigniew Drozdowicz Pdf

The standards of rationality are treated in this book as certain regulators of social life. They are compared to the rudders of the great vessels constituted by social communities. The diversity exhibited by those standards do not only result from the differences of time and space of their implementation, but also from the differences in the sets of ideas put forward by the leading social thinkers accompanied by the different characteristics of their designated audiences. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 7)